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Question

Is there a routine that can take a hex color value and convert it to a Delphi formatted value like: "Cornsilk1 Cornsilk1 255 248 220 #FFF8DC" into $00DCF8FF?

Untested:

function Swap32(aLong: Longint): Longint; assembler;
asm
  BSWAP eax
end;

function HexColorToColor(HexColor: string): TColor;
  {input: '#FFF8DC' -> output $DCF8FF as TColor,
  use IntTohex to convert output to string again if needed}
begin
  Assert(Length(hexcolor)) > 1);
  Assert(hexcolor[1] = '#');
  hexcolor[1] := '$';
  Result := Swap32(StrToInt(hexcolor));
end;